Preschool

My oldest started Preschool yesterday and it was wonderful and awful all at the same time. He ran up to the building saying goodbye to me before we even got to the door and sounded a little miffed when I told him I had to go inside with him everyday. Once inside he waved at me and screamed goodbye as he ran to play with the other kids. Didn't even take off his backpack -- had to call him back for that too. His teacher told me that it was good that he was like that and that I did a good job with him and gave me a hug but that didn't stop the tears. I can't believe me little man is growing up and ready to be without me. :(

Will post pictures soon.

Challenge = Paint

I have tons of little bottles of paint, they are like candy to me. I love to buy all the pretty little colors and I love seeing them all lined up like little colorful soldiers on my shelf but....

... I never use them. Ok maybe not NEVER but I rarely use them. The clean-up is so time consuming and it is like calling wild dogs to dinner with my kids when I pull them out. They KNOW it is messy and won't leave me alone.

So I did a layout with paint, not just brushing it on a foam stamp but getting down and dirty and just slopping it on my cardstock. I chose gold cause the cardstock I chose had this cool silvery kind of fleck in it. Don't ask me the brand or when I got it, I think it just arrived or maybe the blacks and grey are multiplying now in the cubby.



I also used my paint pens too, I bought these cool Zig Opaque pens a long time ago cause I thought I would love the white one but it was too thick but it really did a good job at outlining my little boxes.

Another thing I did here was I used double sided paper without abandon. I have a hard time with it, I was telling my friend this the other day and she so laughed at me but really there are 2 beautiful pieces of paper all in one and I really have a hard time figuring out which one to use. On the other side of the graph paper (by Scenic Route) is this awesome flowery print with like textbook paper as the petals.

So what do you think, are the colors too much to be put together? Too much distressing on the photos? Not my normal style but I think you can see me in there! :)

Not exactly what you want to do at 10PM.

Last night my oldest just couldn't get to sleep. He has a little summer cold and the stuff running down the back of this throat is making him cough. So last night he was sitting on the couch between us coughing and all of a sudden he gets up and says "my tummy is sick". So I told him if he was going to be sick to go to the bathroom, well he tried -- that's all I can say. He turned around and BLECH!!

So at 10PM last night hubby and I were shampooing the carpet upstairs in the toy room.

How did you spend your evening?

Funny Scrapbooking Poem

My LSS sends out an email newsletter once a week and normally they they titles and quotes at the end of it but this week they had this poem.

Ode to My Wife, the Scrapbook Cropper
by Valerie Consolo
She learned to crop on Monday,
Her shapes were going fine.
She forgot to thaw our dinner,
So we went out to dine...

She added die-cuts on Tuesday,
She says they really are a must.
They actually were quite lovely,
But she forgot to dust...

On Wednesday it was stickers,
She says the designs are fun.
What highlights, what shadows!!
But the laundry wasn't done...

Her journaling was on Thursday,
With Pigma pens, including red.
I quess she really was engrossed,
She never made the bed...

It was more acid-free paper on Friday,
In colors that she adores.
It never bothered her at all,
The crumbs on the floor...

I found a maid on Saturday,
My week is now complete.
My wife can crop the hours away,
The house will still be neat...

Well, it's already Sunday,
But don't call me a great Pop.
I cursed!@#$, I raved*#@, I ranted!!!
The maid has learned to CROP!!!!!!

Hot Mama

Another video cause I know some people who have never heard this song and I wanted to share it with them. :)



I used the lyrics to this song for another All About Me challenge that I posted at Have Your Way With Paper. The challenge was to use song lyrics to describe yourself.

Here is my layout. (everything is Shabby Princess)

What an AWESOME little pick me up!!

I was reading the comments on my last blog and Erin said that it was too cool that I was on the ME blog. I was like "what?" so I went to check it out and SURE ENOUGH -- there I was!!! How totally cool is that, they picked my layout to post on their blog for the challenge!!

Thank you ME blog writers!!

the ME blog challenge

I know I have been going out on a lot of new limbs this month and here I am doing it again. Hopefully the drop won't be too far.

This is for challenge #8 - Scrap a confession at the ME blog.



The journaling says....

OK maybe I should say REFORMING... three and a half years ago this would have given me a heart attack. But I am working on letting go. I still love my kitchen clean & I try to keep the living room picked up just in case someone would "drop by". But looking at all this STUFF in the toy room makes me smile cause I know my boys ar happy and healthy and loved. AND I just keep telling myself in a couple of years...

... I can teach them to clean up after themselves! Right?

Trying something new!! Hopefully it won't blow up on me.

I absolutely love this video by OK GO called Here it Goes Again. I just think about how much time went into chrorographing (sp? blogger doesn't know either) it. I just love it and well heck the song is pretty good too.



Thank you to Lacey for showing me where to find this and thank you to YouTube.com for having such great stuff to look at. Now I have another place to hang out online. ;)

Just another layout.

To post. These are the first pictures of DHubby meeting little man after flying for like 48 hours straight to get home to see us.



Aren't those little cut outs on the layout to DIE for!! I made them on my wishblade. The circle one is from the free fonts that you get from the Elsie's 52 challenges book and I love how it turned out -- my wishblade it SWEET and I have been using it a lot lately!!

That last post was...

MY 200th POST!!

So I didn't make it to Round 3...

of the Effer Dare's challenge. Not that I thought I would be it would have been cool. My heart did drop a little when I didn't see my name today.

Well here is my layout for Round 2. The challenge was to use 13 photos. It was tough!!


Close up of the left side and right side.